Debugging code with TotalView: A primer
last update: 01/26/2004

Debugging code with TotalView: A primer
Table of contents

Credits and copyright

Introduction to code debugging

Overview of this primer

Part 1

Introduction to TotalView and how you use it to perform common debugging tasks

Examining core files with TotalView

Debugging a simple serial code

TotalView session

Examining program variables

Obtaining more detailed information about the program by "diving"

Controlling where TotalView stops in your code

Locating action points in your code

Breakpoints (barriers)

Evaluation points

Debugging parallel applications that produce multiple process windows in TotalView

Debugging a simple parallel code

Starting execution of an MPI code

Parallel threads (OpenMP threads) displayed by TotalView

Parallel processes (message passing parallelism) displayed by TotalView

Part 2

Overriding TotalView defaults

Setting paths to source files and executables for TotalView

Redirecting stdin, stdout, stderr, and startup parameters

Setting TotalView preferences

Setting TotalView signal processing

Part 3

TotalView examples

Understanding the TotalView debugger via simple examples

How to debug module code in TotalView

How to debug batch parallel jobs with TotalView

(See hybrid parallel job example under seminar materials below)

TotalView seminar materials

Strategies for debugging hybrid codes with TotalView on the IBM clusters

Example: Debugging a simple MPMD MPI-OpenMP hybrid job with TotalView

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